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Silas Stein | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesSpaceX’s $2 trillion initial public offering is so far crowning more winners than losers. One of them is arguably blockchain-based exchanges like Hyperliquid and Binance, which offered perpetual futures on SpaceX in the lead-up to the IPO. Perpetual futures, or “perps” as they’re called among traders, are derivative contracts with no expiration date that have gained popularity with international traders and are increasingly becoming a part of U.S. market structure. The CFTC recently approved prediction market operator Kalshi to trade bitcoin perps. Perp market traders had a form of early access to SpaceX, and the…

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The electronic news ticker of Fox News reads headlines at the News Corp. Building in the Midtown Manhattan area of New York City, U.S., July 20, 2025.Eduardo Munoz | ReutersFox Corp. has reached an agreement to acquire Roku for roughly $22 billion, marking another chapter in media consolidation as the industry grapples with changing dynamics and mounting challenges. On Monday Fox announced it would acquire Roku for $160 per share in a cash and stock transaction. Fox plans to fund the cash portion of the deal with a combination of cash on hand and new debt. The company said it…

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Vice President JD Vance on Monday said after the U.S. and Iran struck a preliminary deal that there are “a lot” of details that remain to be ironed out, but he expressed confidence that America has “all the cards” in subsequent talks.Vance told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is expected to be involved in those upcoming discussions — as well as its parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a hard-liner whose participation could signal that the regime’s conservative faction is on board with the deal.The agreement reached Sunday would extend the U.S.-Iran ceasefire for 60 days and set…

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Early SpaceX investor Ron Baron wasn’t taking profits during its blockbuster stock-market debut. He was buying more.The billionaire investor said Baron Capital purchased an additional $1 billion worth of SpaceX shares Friday during the company’s initial public offering, increasing the firm’s position in Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company to roughly $25 billion.The purchase marks a fresh vote of confidence from one of SpaceX’s earliest and most enthusiastic institutional backers, even after the company’s valuation soared to $2 trillion.”I think we’re going to make hundreds of billions of dollars,” Baron said Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “What they’ve done isn’t…

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U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks at This is the Turning Point Tour at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, U.S., April 14, 2026. Alyssa Pointer | ReutersVice President JD Vance said Monday that he expects the U.S.-Iran deal will open the Strait of Hormuz without a toll system for the long term. “Our expectation is that the strait is going to be opened in a toll-free way for the long term, and that’s the sort of thing that we’re going to figure out in these technical negotiations,” Vance told CNBC in an interview.This is breaking news. Please refresh…

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To win over today’s diners, KFC is prioritizing boneless chicken menu items, expanding its sauce options and designing its restaurants to keep customers’ attention.These days, the Yum Brands chain is facing stiff competition, both from upstart chicken chains and legacy giants like McDonald’s that are betting big on the growing global popularity of chicken. While KFC claims to have invented the chicken quick-service restaurant category, being the first isn’t the same as being No. 1, particularly in the U.S., where its sales have slumped in recent years.”In an increasingly crowded category, we have a clear opportunity to set the standard…

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